The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 17, 1923, Page 4

PAGE FOUR THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. BISMARCK TRIBUNE CO. : Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY Publishers CHICAGO~ - : DETROIT Marquette Bldg. Kresge Bldg. PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK - - - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use or republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. All rights of republication of specia! dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE Daily by carrier, per year. SNA tres Uie3!) Daily by mail, per year (in Bismarck). . ais MeZO Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck).... 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota.............. 6.09 THE STATE’S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) SPEED CRAZE A safety first enthusiast writes: “Why was so much attention paid to the wreck of the Twentieth Century Lim- ited, killing nine, when at least five times that many were killed the same day by autos here in America alone?” The answer is, the big train wreck was spectacular. It} was the wreck of the train, rather than the actual loss of | life, that appealed to popular imagmation. The Twentieth Century wreck was an international story, for this train symbolizes the Speed Idol, so widely wor- shiped in our generation. This train is famous all over the world — principally for its speed, since the average person | gives secondary attention to the train’s comforts and the| services it renders. | Ours is a nervous generation, impatient, restless, eager to be up and moving. Many individuals are about as speedy as molasses in zero weather. But the national tendency is! toward speed. | People rush their eating, gulp their meals. They may move deliberately, but in the main they are ever on the look- out for shortcuts of methods and mechanism that will hurry | their work. They even rush their entertainment —start | leaving the theater before the final curtain, as if getting to} the exit ahead of their neighbors were a life-and-death | matter. i All this worried rush, of course, is an indication of dis-| eased nerves rather than impulsive industriousness or de sire to accomplish, Occasionally we are remindeded, by a catastrophe like the Twentieth Century wreck or an auto crash, that speed has its price. The real and greater price is shattered nerves and existence made unnecessary wretched and disagreeable by hurry without motive. The man with Speed Mania must be a great admirer of | the inventor of the automatic hearse, which certainly is Speed Plus. i EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column may or may not express the opfilon of The Tribune, They are p#sented bh order that our readers. 11 c both sides Of important which are being discunsed the press of the day. FARC TROUBLE they cannot hold their annual ice carnival on New Year’s day. If the ice crop fails, those who have been making a living off that crop will have to diversify. They will have Japan some time ago the earth was precipitated about 700 miles ne er the sun, that’s why it isso warm just now. — Valtey y 'Times- Record. THE RELAPSE OF MEXICO frown there wig scarcely any per- sonal liberty. The and as was president mame; he was emperor in fact. | But in those days the mea ,beon was in bet dered. in | i r condition than | during the dark after tie | revolutin of 1911. Under Diaz he}; got his food, his clothes, and a place to sleep. But he often lack- ed these necessities during the post-Diaz years in which the Mex icans were accepting the pretens? that they were governing them- selves. The aver Mexican was helpless in the whirl of revolution jand counter-revolution, of men who were bandits one day government the next. i Then Obregon became presiden’. | Since early in his administration, there has been a distinct improve- and heads of | ment. He gave the country more | freedom and more stability. Bus’-| ness began in earnest again. F reduced the army graft. better administrative any other president There were many thin, administration and in hi ficial language which we demned, but we had to rememb that his first job was to hold h office, and so he had to placate his people. | All in all, Obregon’s administr2- tion gave us reason to hope that Mexico was at last going to prove herself cupable of self-govern- ment. Impressed by his achieve-| ments, our State Department con-| luded a treaty with Mexico. Ty He mac con- | t of the world believed with ns that a new era of cordial and mu- tually beneficial relations with ; Mexico wag et hand. ' And suddenly Adolfo de la Hu- erta, former member of Oregon's ANTI-PROHIBITION CONFERENCE Liquor makers held an anti-prohibition conference in Lon don, where the Daily Mail in its report of the meeting re- corded, “Mr. H. F. Fox (United States) said that police statistics in his country, while, showing more drunkein:ss under p hibition, did not tell of what was going on in the people’s homes or behind closed doors in private-clubs. There had been a startling increase in motoring accidents due to drunken drivers, in divorces, suicides and homicides.” That first sentence is partly correct. The last sentence is bunk. i SLUR IN NOVEL | Dorothy Grace Harnett, in Ireland, is sued for divorce by her husband, on the ground that she “used” him slur- ringly as a character in her new book, “Lex Talonis.” | Just how far should a fiction writer go in using his friends as material? Not at all, according to some writers’ ethics. | O. Henry respected the whole feminine sex so much that, as/ you’ve noticed, he used love plots only incidentally, without intense sex appeal. You recall the celebrated American novelist who was shot and killed some years ago by the brother of a woman he’d used in a serial story. DOYLE ON RILEY H Conan Doyle stirs up a hornets’ nest in Indiana by saying that James Whitcomb Riley, the greatest poet of childhood in his generation, cared nothing for children—in fact, was | bored by them. Some psychologists claim that writers do their best work on subjects they’re not in sympathy with, just as many a drunk has given fine “dry” lectures. Riley, howeyer, adored children—so much so that he often affected a dislike for them, to conceal a serftiment so keenly developed in him that he was almost ashamed of it. | Many a man has tears in his eyes while he’s blustering his disdain for something emotional. | TELEPHONE IS SHORT-CUT i A New York brokerage house pays-$750,000 a year for its telephone service. You can imagine the infinite amount of “running about” that would be necessary if messenger boys had to do the work performed by these brokers’ phones. In fact, it would be a physcial impossibility to conduct their business without phones. Yet many now living can recall when the telephone was not as widely used as the airplane is today. The time is coming, .and not far off, when people will say: “How did they ever get along without airplanes? Why, we simply couldn’t live without them.” ‘ NINETY PER CENT ANTICIPABION «We're increasingly impressed by the number of people that die suddenly just when they are expecting to do things } for which they had planned a long time. Patrick J: Bronner | of Boston toiled getting his business in shape so he could , the winter in Florida. / His trunks were packed. He a few hours before train time. ife is 90 per cent anticipation. The other 10 per cent, ‘i,divided between realization and unexpected collapse of | ans. Goals are rarely reached. But the journeys toward | the goals are what really count, after all. ; STAR OF BETHLEHEM = | | A study of the records of ancient Chinege astronomers | ils that a giant comet appeared in the sky at the birth y iten in Mentor, magazine for Decembet? with the Star of Bethlehem, for it was -the gate of Jerusalem mr, fe » it) cabinet, revolts. He captures Vera Cruz and many other chief cities.! The country is again in arms. Mexico City is in danger. neon is agizin caught in a whirl of uncertainty. So fa he knows, Obeegon is ruling ‘him today; but ho will rule him tomorrow? Huerm? Calles? horse? It is a pity, and it is a shock to our optimism. Mexico has ap n her usual fashion, ‘eads us to wonder whether dces not need another Diaz. Wouldn't ft be better, after all, if She were rul; a few-years?—Chicago Journal of Commerce. * MANDAN NEWS | ARREST TWO ON | LIQUOR CHARGES) E. B. Ward of Fort Rice was re- leased on a $1,000 bond Saturday fol- lowing his arraignment before Jus- tice G. L. Olson on charges of having two moonshine stills in his posses- sion and in their operation. Joe Solmon of seven miles south- west of Glen Ullin was arraigned to- day in Mandan charged with non- support of his wife and family. Mike Kline of New Salem was taken into custody and placed in jail for appearance “before Judge Berry at the January term of court. His place was raided by prohibition agents a few weeks ago and is charg- ed with violating the Volstead laws and was unable to furnish bond. A number of civil and court causes will be heard in* Morton County dis- trict court beginning ‘Thursday morning Jan. 3, according to the an- nouncement of Judge H. L. Berry Saturday. Forty jurymen will be called for duty at the term which will open jury cases Monday, after- noon, Jan. 7, Officers for the Fair Board will be elected Friday, Dec. 28 at the Commercial club rooms ‘according to the announcement of Dr. B, K. Bjornson, secretary of the Missouri Slope Fair Association and board of directors Saturday. The present board is composed of John Dawson, president; J. W. Smith, J. I. Rovig, H. M. Pfenning, and Dr. Bjornson, At this time plans for the combination of the Fair and the Mandan Reund- up will be éonsidered. Marriage licenses were issued. to Kda L, Nydigger of Timmer and| Walter A. Wagy of Shields Friday and to Huldah Maej Monson and To- bias Olson Saturday by the County Judge. pee SELES All Arranged: She—Oh, I wish the Lord made me » man! He (bashfully)—He did. man.—Punch Bowl. sf had tm the Send a copy of Crawford’s Badlands and. cho Trails vahge ibe id to your friends, hey'll not On account of the warm weather the people of Fargo are fearful that | to go raising bananas, peanuts, sweet potatoes a for this warm weather at this time of the yeur is said to be because | when they had that earthquake in The great period of development in Mexico was during the reign of Porfiro Ty: The man was un-| doubtedly a tyrant. Under this peon worked | he was or-| py. think THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Santa Gets | | | | ! LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT for anything, And knowing her as TO LESLIE PRESCOTT, CONTINUED “Would it have been, John, an un- pardonable sin if Ruth has come by that money in either of the you mention?” I asked sarcastieully, for I was very angry by. this ‘time. “Surely, even the most honorable of men must realize that- Ruth El- lington could not conveniently starve just because her blackguard Husband has not only betrayed all his friends but betrayed her as well. ‘Suppose ways - Ruth did have a little, monéy, thier she had put away from the meager sums Harry Ellington had given het, was hers, was it not?. Do™ you should have given it up to his creditors persumably to white- wash a reputation that was beyond repair? Would you, for instance, belonging to you, the very © moncy she depended upon to open a little scoundrel ?” “Of course not, Leslie! I am just d by an iron hand for telling you what people are saying.” | “Then when they say it to you, Jack, it is up to you to say to trem just what I have been telling you.” “Everybody doesn’t say that, Les- lie. More people are saying that Walter Burke gave her the money.” “Well let's look at that without prejudice. When Harry Ellington Jett his wife without a cent and she had no way to turn, and all you men even worse than he nad you—” “Hold on, Leslie, she never came to me for anything,” interrupted Jack. ‘ “Of course she didn’t céme to you stop with one reading. 50 | Capital ‘20 who had befriended him declined to | there has been about her, befriend the woman he had betrayed | cannot bring her back here.” [ EVERETT TRUE BY CONDO | DEFACING. FFA I do, I know she probably did not go| to Walter Burke for anything, But] | you must have known she was penni- less. We will put the case a little differently. Suppose your friend, Sydney Carton, had left Paula Perier | without a cent, isn’t it just possible | that you might have felt you should do something for the poor girl?” ack, who was standing by the mantel, dropped heavily into a chair. a, | “My Goa, Leslie, what dq you mean} by,.tha' | ‘Just exactly what I say. Would you advise either Paula Perier or Ruth Ellington to starve rather than to tuke money from a friend just be- cause that friend happened to be a man? Of course, John, I am only supposing cases, but I tell you hon- estly if I were in Ruth’s place I Or some dark have taken, as something’ rightfully | would have-kept everything I could out of the wreck and I would have taken from any one of the men I re- business whereby she might make} knew enough’ money to set me up Tt an honest living after her life had} in business. I think Ruth has been she been shattered into bits by a dirty! very brave in the matter and { am going to stand by her through thick sand thin”, “Well, I never did like her.” ‘ “I can't help whether you like her or not, Jack, you have a great many friends that I don’t like and you are ‘hanging to a man now that is mak- ing both you and-me a great deal of - trouble. I don’t see how Sydney Car- ton thinks he is going to get out of this matter. You say hé has gone, out to Hollywood. Even if he mar- ries that girl, with all the gossip surely he “My God, my God! How women do jump at conclusions!” shouted Jack as he went out the door. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) oat a Headache MONDAY, | In my last article I explained the Object of Mah Jongg as being the completion of a hand in four sets member that, immediately following the draw, each player had 13 tiles, except East Wind, who had 14. Thus as four sets of threes and a pair to- ‘tal 14, it is obvivous that East is the jonly one who could Mah Jongg on an original hand. The chances of the other players (and of East also after play starts) come through a system of drawing and discarding. East starts by. discatding one tile, | This should be the tile he considers jof least value to him, i. e., the one which he thinks least likely to work into a three-of-a-kind, a three-run sequence, or a pair. This depends on the remainder of his hand, and (which is true for all players) on the discards after the first play, Another Draw As.soon as East discards, and un- less someone “pungs,” (which is ex- plained below), South eitKer “chows” (which is explained below) or else Graws from the wall. The draw from the wall is of the top tile immediate- ly to the left of the opening. Then South discards and (if uninterrupted by “pung” or “chow”) West, the next player te South, draws from the wall (the bottom tile of the pair of which South just drew the upper tile) and thus ‘the play proceeds, couiter- clockwise around the table. “Pung.” When a piece is discard- ed, any player can “pung” it if he has two of the same denomination in the same suit in his hand. This he does by saying “pung” and. picking the piece up from the table, “Pung” \ Thus, if East discards a “two bam- boo” any other player, regardless of where he sits, ®n pung” if he has two or more “two bamboos” in his hand. But a player can never “pung” to fill a pair, or to a sequence, except when the filling of sych pair or se- quence will give him game, or Mal eu ADVENTURE OF THE TWINS By Olive Roberts Barton This was the next riddle that the Well, Coolidge announces he running for president but it didn’t quite come as a bombshell. Cleveland gas is so low it reeds a political convention ‘now more thai it will next spring. Riddle Lady made up in Riddle .» | Land: Congress shows 68 bald heads in the House of Representatives and |upm worn by both beggar and there may be many more soon. knight, ri Sometimes I am loose, sometimes Long debates are expected in Con- tight, gress. . It’s a bitter ‘session. Our | Quite often I feel language will suffer heavily. A bit down at the heel, | And then without doubt I'm a sight. With a million pther things he could worry about one congressman has a bill on canary birds. “Sometimes I am flat, |As often I'm thin as I’m fat, The older I grow, |The more wrinkles I show, But I'm never upset about that. tall, sometimes Mellon announces paper money de- signs will be changed. Let's hope the new bills last longer. Average auto uses 426 gallons of “Though ‘my body’s as black as a gas & year, barring accidents. coal, You* must know that I boast of a Your lot could be much worse. A sole, man in a Seattle jail has 18 wives | But the thing that I fear, i : and Christmas is coming. With old age drawing near, ft Is that it wears into a hole. “I_walk further far than i ride, |For I have a remarkable stride, is | But the thing that is droll, Anything can, happen now. French | When I go for a stroll, football team played a German team | Why, I carry my tootsies inside! © in Germany without any damage. So many new kinds of money are being put into circulation you can’t | tell cash from coupons. “I button up tight, or I lace, Remains of an iththyosatrus were | And I whisper that’s not a disgrace, found in Nova Scotia. Remember| And I’ve ten perfect toes, the name in case you meet one. Though I haven't a nose, . \ And my tongue is as long as my face.: Robberies are increasing in New York because it is so easy ‘to coax a stranger into a cellar. “I’ve a twin brother, too, if you 3 please! Mah Jongg sets are- popular this They say we're as like as two peas, Christmas Mah Jongg sets &F€|We are always together, dominoes with a college education. |No matter what weather, And but for goloshes we'd freeze.” Your wife may keep you in hot water. Could be worse. A Spanish one boiled her hubby in oil. Puss-in-Boots stroked his whiskers thoughtfully. “I might guess the answer if I tried very hard,” he said, “but I don’t think if fair to take ad- Springfield (Vt.)’ couple have & house on wheels. It’s the best way, be CING. le j \| think, for selling phonographs. vantage”. if you talk about the neighbors. “That's what I think,” said the EES . Old - Woman- Who- Had-So- Many Wisconsin phonograph dealer is in| Ghiidren She Didn't Know What To .” But not, as some readers may} py. 3 $ Goody-Two-Shoes ‘was passing by and stoped just,in time to hear the Old Woman's remark. “What's all ithe talking about?’ she remarked. “I was just on my way to the cobbler’s to get my shoes mended.” “Hey?” What's that?” the if a said “we may change our money, but Europe still has designs on it. Los Angeles girl of 14 thinks she is a wild horse. If she was a dark honge she could be a politician. « | Woman wanted to know, “ little hard of hearing.” . “Shoes!” yelled Goody. ” Los Angeles movie star's auto hi atrain. She was driving. Can't al- ways get by on your. looks. “y that I- Fah But she hadn't time to finish for than houses | si the Riddle Land people called out, “She's guessed the riddle. Goddy-’ Two-Shoes guessed the answer with- out even hearing it. She gets the’ There are more autos in New Hampshire. ' Many peopl have more autos than money. Also, more autos than sense. A whistling buoy was washe across ‘the ocean, so | maybe whistled to keep Ifs spirits up. Nancy ran to the lucky ‘little girl. “Here,” she said, “Here is a pair of nice little red shoes. You won't “his | have to go to the-cobbler’s after all.” ch (To Be Contimied) (Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.) ( XA boy of 15,,led Harvard in exams and attracted almost as mu attention as a football player. | Man in| Atlanta, Ga., is the dad of 28 children, ATI he can say is a full fe ‘house beats a pair. prt [PEOPLE'S FORUM | 8, | Editor Tribune: Let these be our New Year's resol- tions bs ca Some call it a race between Mr= Bonus and.Mr. L. Taxes. — 1 Mah, Jonge. To cease dwelling on the rrozs Fined for Playing Ma Y of the past and to fix Rabanne on - {the achievements of the future. Mola a Jone To be so ‘Sbatinstely, calm that nothing can disturb. our —peace of mind, * a: Z ‘To be kind, to be gentle and to avoid all! harshness and wrath. Kuala Lumpue, hag taken the United States ana Great Britain by storm. Bnt author- ities:here frown upon it. Eight Chinese, recently, srreted for Ba Jt ata private residence, 4 household. |. To.devote so mueh Pe ea ah tare $100 ‘self improvement that we shall a" 1 0 time. to find. fault with: others, oltee | Rerprdtanoantceeeone it eather PYt-C)~ Jong BY J.P BABCOCK it Bales ele a jof threes and a pair. You will re-| DECEMBER 17, 1923 q Jongg. A “pung” can always be made to complete a hand for Mah Jongg, and such a “pung” takes precedence over a‘pung” which does not complete a Mah Jongg hand. When two can “pung” for game. he gets the piece who is nearbst the dis- carder in/order of play. It is not called “pung” or “chow” in this case, but “Mah Jongg.” A “pung” automatically shifts the order of play, he who “pungs” then discarding and the game proceeding to his right. and West “pungs,” the next play to draw after West discards will be North, Or if North “punged” a dis- card by Fast, the play would go North, East, South, ete. “Chow” ‘ A “pung” takes precedence over a “chow.” “Chowing.” The “chow” is per- missible only to the player to the immediate right of the discarder. Thus when East discards, South (and South only) can “chow.” When South discards, West (and West. on- ly) can “show.” An easy way to re- member this is that the, next in or- der of regular play is the only one who may “chow.” A person “chows” when he says “chow” and picks up a dismard which enables him to fill a three-run se- quence. Thus, when he “chows” a Four Bamboo and he holds the two and three Bamboo, or the three and five Bamboo, or the five and six Bamboo, Last. Pieces Only A “pung” or a “chow” can only be made on the last piece discarded. All other discarded pieces are dead. Courtesy of the game demands that both punged and chowed pieces shall immediately be laid in front.of the punger or chower face up, togethbr with the two pieces which gave him authority for making the play. Thus @n a pung, the entire three-of-a-kind should be exposed before the discard, while on a chow the three cards jof the sequence should be so exposed. ONLY 15 The youngest freshman ever en- rolled in Smita College is Lillian Yoselvitz, of Girard, Pa. She is 16, and plans to be a teacher. ee the world by great deeds and not by great words. reflect it in smiles for every human being. To rejoice in the success of oth- ers as well as in our own good for- tune, To be too blithe: for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit the pre- sence of trouble. To talk health, happiness. and prosperity to every pergon we meet. To think of the best, work fur the best and expect only the best. To avoid malice and vindictiveness as you would the plague. Never to lose sight of the truth that the world is always on our side when we are true’to the ‘best that is in us. January 1st, 1924, Paul Waldemar Boehm, Hettinger. N. D. » 1 One Experience Enough. : “Why don’t\ you advertise?” Town Storekeeper: “No siree. 1 did once and it pretty near ruined me.” “How was that?” “Why, people came in and bought durn near all the stuff I had:”—st. Louis Globe-Democrat. » > Seeing Clearly. Stage Hand—Did you say you wanted a window or a widow. Show Manager—t said window, but they're both much alike When d get near. either of ‘them I always look ‘out.—Japan Advertiser. ———_—___= The Modern Order. Motorcars are the thing now. Try to hang over the gate and talk and she gives you the gate-—Exchange. tore 4 SHOPPIN YS ‘eerone mas K! Thus, if East chara r & —